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Forget Multitasking! How to Improve Your Focus and Productivity with Single-tasking

By Administrator | 11 October 2016

"You’ve heard of multitasking, right? You might have even mentioned it on your resume or in job interviews (I know I have). Single-tasking, as you might have guessed, is the complete opposite. It means focusing all your attention on just one task at a time. It might sound incredibly inefficient to work this way. After all, if you could do several things at once, why wouldn’t you? But research shows single-tasking actually ends up faster than multitasking in the end. Not only that, but we also perform better and create higher quality work when we single-task. Let’s take a look at why multitasking isn’t all it’s cracked up to be." Read more

Foundr 28 Sep 2016

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